Welcome to my blog\u2014this is a new toy that my son set up for me. (He\u2019s quite knowledgeable about computer stuff\u2014you can google him (David Blatner) and come up with scores of thousands of hits!)<\/p>\n
When I was young, my cultural tradition was to have your kids in some ways make more progress that you did, finish school, maybe even go to college. The first generation over from the Old Country\u2014if you could make a living and set your kids up so they could do well in business, this was a success. In the 1920s through the 1940s and beyond, there were still quotas in professional schools that limited the number of Jews who could attend. The 2nd generation, though, wanted their kids to do even better: \u201cMine son the doctor\u201d was a kind of comic cliche. Lawyer was good, dentist and CPA, pretty good. Such were the status hierarchies in this immigrant group in that historical 1940s – 1950s era. (What have they been for the Asian-Americans in the last six decades\u2014and for other immigration groups?)<\/p>\n
So now\u2014although I\u2019m sort of a third-generation mind, culturally\u2014though in fact I\u2019m a 2nd generation actually\u2014 and I\u2019m the doctor, my son can\u2019t trump that so easily, so he\u2019s gone into a field that I couldn\u2019t anticipate! Who knew there would be such a thing? But I\u2019m proud, now, because he gets more hits than I do on Google. Is that a success? (What will it be the status symbols for his sons\u2014my grandsons\u2014, in twenty years of continued postmodernist acceleration of change?<\/p>\n
Anyway, what you\u2019ll find here are reflections in many fields: Mainly, I\u2019m into contemporary philosophy, consciousness transformation (what is that?), trends in psychology, helping to make these concepts mainstream; I\u2019m interested a little in esoteric subjects such as kabbalah, but that interest goes up and down. I want to see Whitehead\u2019s and Hartshorne\u2019s \u201cprocess philosophy\u201d appreciated more.<\/p>\n
I have continuing interest in some old professional fields\u2014psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychodrama (therapeutic role playing), social psychology, etc.\u2014mainly as they speak to how can psychology be applied today, and not just by professionals. I want to see the best insights harvested and used in everyday life.<\/p>\n
Imagination and playfulness is another dimension I want to see woven in, and I engage in my own larks and foolin\u2019 around. Cartooning is a sub-interest and you may see some of those in time. Speaking to other forms of expression\u2014singing, dancing, especially as they are made accessible to ordinary people and made free of the demand to \u201cdo it right\u201d or \u201cdo it well\u201d\u2014 this is another thing I want to see blossom in the world.<\/p>\n
So you\u2019ll see some of these themes addressed. Mainly, I hope you\u2019ll use this blog as a springboard to check out or browse among my other websites: There I have longer papers, essays, that address in greater depth various themes we touch on in these pages. How to Get the Most out of a Blog: I don\u2019t know yet. Invite discussions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to my blog\u2014this is a new toy that my son set up for me. (He\u2019s quite knowledgeable about computer stuff\u2014you can google him (David Blatner) and come up with scores of thousands of hits!) When I was young, my cultural tradition was to have your kids in some ways make more progress that you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe website: www.interactiveimprov.com<\/a> Speaks to the cutting edge of how drama may be used to make our communications more effective and holistically authentic. Mere discussion is better than flinging accusations or spouting opinions, but we can do even better, we can encounter and explore ideas and differences with a view to coming up with creative syntheses and alternatives.
\nThe website www.blatner.com\/adam\/<\/a> Has lots of my other stuff. Browse and skim around. I\u2019ll be revising these over time, too.<\/p>\n